598 The White House, Memorandum of Telephone Conversation (July 25, 2019) (online at www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf).
599 The White House, Memorandum of Telephone Conversation (July 25, 2019) (online at www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf).
600 The White House, Memorandum of Telephone Conversation (July 25, 2019) (online at www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf).
601 The White House, Memorandum of Telephone Conversation (July 25, 2019) (online at www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf).
602 The White House, Memorandum of Telephone Conversation (July 25, 2019) (online at www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf).
603 The White House, Remarks by President Trump before Marine One (Oct. 3, 2019) (online at www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-marine-one-departure-67/).
604Hill Dep. Tr. at 400; Kent-Taylor Hearing Tr. at 73.; Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 63-64.; Yovanovitch Hearing Tr. at 49-50; Morrison-Volker Hearing Tr. at 23.
605 Kent Dep. Tr. at 45.
606 Kent-Taylor Hearing Tr. at 116.
607 Yovanovitch Hearing Tr. at 50.
608 See Section I, Chapter 1.
609 Kent Dep. Tr. at 44-50.
610 Morrison-Volker Hearing Tr. at 23.
611 Morrison-Volker Hearing Tr. at 23.
612 See Section I, Chapter 1.
613 The White House, Memorandum of Telephone Conversation (July 25, 2019) (online at www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf).
614 Yovanovitch Dep. Tr. at 192-193.
615 Yovanovitch Dep. Tr. at 192-193.
616 Ambassador Volker was the only witness to testify that President Trump’s reference to the “prosecutor” during the July 25 call was to Mr. Shokin, not Mr. Lutsenko. See Volker Dep. Tr. at 355. However, Mr. Holmes testified that, on July 26—the day after the call—he spoke with President Zelensky’s Chief of Staff Andriy Bohdan who told Holmes that “President Trump had expressed interest during the previous day’s phone call in President Zelensky’s personnel decisions related to the Prosecutor General’s office,” which Mr. Holmes understood to refer to Mr. Lutsenko once he saw the July 25 call transcript. Holmes Dep. Tr. at 22, 49. In addition, in a text message to Taylor and Sondland after his July 19 breakfast with Giuliani, Volker emphasized that “Most impt [important] is for Zelensky to say” on the July 25 call “that he will help investigation—and address any specific personnel issues—if there are any.” Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000037 (Oct. 2, 2019).
617 The White House, Memorandum of Telephone Conversation (July 25, 2019) (online at www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf).
618 The White House, Memorandum of Telephone Conversation (July 25, 2019) (online at www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf).
619 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 55.
620 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 49-50.
621 Kent-Taylor Hearing Tr. at 25.
622 Morrison-Volker Hearing Tr. at 19.
623 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 18.
624 In-Town Pool Report #6—Ukraine Call, White House Pool Report (July 25, 2019) (online at https://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-in-town-pool-report-6-ukraine-call-1836700221).
625 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 42-43.
626 Vindman-Williams Hearing Tr. at 31-33; Morrison-Volker Hearing Tr. at 34.
627 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 46-47.
628 Taylor Dep. Tr. at 29.
629 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 94.
630 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 46-47.
631 Vindman-Williams Hearing Tr. at 28.
632 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 147.
633 Vindman-Williams Hearing Tr. at 28-29.
634 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 96-97.
635 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 97-98.
636 Morrison-Volker Hearing Tr. at 29.
637 Morrison Dep. Tr. at 23-24.
638 Morrison Dep. Tr. at 41-42, 191-192.
639 Morrison Dep. Tr. at 97.
640 Morrison Dep. Tr. at 97.
641 Morrison Dep. Tr. at 101.
642 Morrison Dep. Tr. at 41.
643 Morrison Dep. Tr. at 43.
644 Morrison Dep. Tr. at 44.
645 Morrison Dep. Tr. at 16.
646 Morrison Dep. Tr. at 101.
647 Morrison-Volker Hearing Tr. at 38.
648 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 121.
649 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 122.
650 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 122-123.
651 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 121.
652 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 123-124.
653 Morrison Dep. Tr. at 121.
654 Morrison Dep. Tr. at 55-56.
655 Morrison Dep. Tr. at 55-56, 121-123.
656 Morrison Dep. Tr. at 270.
657 Williams Dep. Tr. at 16, 63.
658 Williams Dep. Tr. at 149.
659 Vindman-Williams Hearing Tr. at 34.
660 Williams Dep. Tr. at 148.
661 Vindman-Williams Hearing Tr. at 29.
662 Williams Dep. Tr. at 54, 149.
663 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 54-55. (“There’s one other substantive item in the next paragraph from Zelensky, where it says ‘He or she will look into the situation specifically to the company’—it shouldn’t be ‘the company.’ It should be ‘to Burisma that you mentioned.’ Because I think, you know, frankly these are not necessarily folks that are familiar with the substance. So President Zelensky specifically mentioned the company Burisma.”).
664 Vindman-Williams Hearing Tr. at 61.
665 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 89.
666 Williams Dep. Tr. at 68-69.
Q:
Okay. When the transcript was made available to the VP’s office, do you remember when that occurred?
A:
My colleagues—I can’t remember the precise time, but before the end of the day that day my colleagues who help prepare the Vice President’s briefing book received a hard copy of the transcript from the White House Situation Room to include in that book. I didn’t personally see it, but I understood that they had received it because we wanted to make sure the Vice President got it.
Q:
On the 25th or 26th?
A:
It was on the 25th.
667 Vindman Dep. Tr. at 139–141.
668 Kent Dep. Tr. at 163-165.
669 Holmes Dep. Tr.at 107.
670 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 21-22.
671 Kent-Taylor Hearing Tr. at 38; Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 26.
672 Morrison-Volker Hearing Tr. at 74. (“Yes. So I was not on the phone call. I had arrived in Ukraine, and I had had that lunch with Mr. Yermak that we saw on the day of the phone call. I had been pushing for the phone call because I thought it was important to renew the personal connection between the two leaders and to congratulate President Zelensky on the parliamentary election. The readout I received from Mr. Yermak and also from the U.S. side—although I’m not exactly sure who it was on the U.S. side, but there was U.S. and a Ukrainian readout—were largely the same, that it was a good call, that it was a congratulatory phone call for the President winning the parliamentary election. President Zelensky did reiterate his commitment to reform and fighting corruption in Ukraine, and President Trump did reiterate his invitation to President Zelensky to come visit him in the White House. That’s exactly what I thought the phone call would be, so I was not surprised at getting that as the readout.”).
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bsp; 673 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 22.
674 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 22, 48-49.
675 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 49.
676 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 49.
677 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 22.
678 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 27.
679 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 48-49.
680 Croft Dep. Tr. at 118-119.
681 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 25; Kent-Taylor Hearing Tr. at 38.
682 Morrison-Volker Hearing Tr. at 89-90.
683 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 64.
684 Kent-Taylor Hearing Tr. at 38.
685 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 27.
686 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 27.
687 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 27-28.
688 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 27-28.
689 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 27-28.
690 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 108.
691 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 49.
692 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 25-26.
693 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 28.
694 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 28.
695 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 49. (“The restaurant has sort of glass doors that open onto a terrace, and we were at the first tables on the terrace, so immediately outside of the interior of the restaurant. The doors were all wide open. There were—there was tables, a table for four, while I recall it being two tables for two pushed together. In any case, it was quite a wide table, and the table was set. There was sort of a table runner down the middle. I was directly across from Ambassador Sondland. We were close enough that we could, you know, share an appetizer between us, and then the two staffers were off to our right at this next table.”).
696 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 28.
697 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 28.
698 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 160.
699 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 28.
700 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 50.
Q:
Now, you said that you were able to hear President Trump’s voice through the receiver. How were you able to hear if it was not on speaker phone?
A:
It was several things. It was quite loud when the President came on, quite distinctive. I believe Ambassador Sondland also said that he often speaks very loudly over the phone, and I certainly experienced that. When the President came on, he sort of winced and held the phone away from his ear like this, and he did that for the first couple exchanges. I don’t know if he then turned the volume down, if he got used to it, if the President moderated his volume. I don’t know. But that’s how I was able to hear.
701 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 28-29.
702 Trump Denies Discussing Ukraine Investigations with Sondland in July Phone Call, Axios (Nov. 13, 2019) (online at: www.axios.com/trump-denies-ukraine-investigation-sondland-6063f555-2629-4f99-b2f9-fd38739c0548.html).
703 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 26.
704 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 46.
705 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 26.
706 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 26.
707 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 48.
708 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 25.
709 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 25-26.
710 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 49-50. Ambassador Sondland opined that, while he may have referred to an investigation that Mr. Giuliani was pushing as an example of an investigation that President Trump cared about, he believed that he would have said “Burisma, not Biden.” He testified, however:
Q:
But do you recall saying at least referring to an investigation that Rudy Giuliani was pushing? Is that something that you likely would have said?
A:
I would have, yes. Id. at 50.
711 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 50.
712 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 67.
713 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 68-69.
714 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 30.
715 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 107.
716 Hill-Holmes Hearing Tr. at 34.
717 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 80.
718 Holmes Dep. Tr. at 80-81.
719 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000007 (Oct. 2, 2019).
720 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000007 (Oct. 2, 2019).
721 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000007 (Oct. 2, 2019).
722 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000019 (Oct. 2, 2019).
723 Volker Transcribed Interview Tr. at 112.
724 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000019 (Oct. 2, 2019).
725 Morrison-Volker Hearing Tr. at 42.
726 Morrison-Volker Hearing Tr. at 42.
727 Morrison-Volker Hearing Tr. at 20-21.
728 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000019 (Oct. 2, 2019).
729 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000007 (Oct. 2, 2019).
730 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_02786.
731 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000007 (Oct. 2, 2019).
732 Sondland Dep. Tr. at 192-193.
733 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000007 (Oct. 2, 2019).
734 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_02797.
735 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_02797.
736 Id.
737 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_03326.
738 Id.
739 Id.
740 Id.
741 Id.
742 Id.
743 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_02798.
744 Id.
745 Id.
746 Id.
747 Id.
748 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_02799.
749 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_02801.
750 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000019 (Oct. 2, 2019).
751 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000019 (Oct. 2, 2019).
752 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000019 (Oct. 2, 2019).
753 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000019 (Oct. 2, 2019).
754 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_02802-03, 02813, 03326, 03719.
755 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_03326.
756 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_02802.
757 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_02803.
758 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_03719.
759 Id.
760 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_02803.
761 Id.
762 Id.
763 Id.
764 Id.
765 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000004-KV00000005 (Oct. 2, 2019).
766 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000004-KV00000005 (Oct. 2, 2019); AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_02805-06.
767 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000023 (Oct. 2, 2019).
768 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000023 (Oct. 2, 2019).
769 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000023 (Oct. 2, 2019).
770 Verizon Document Production.
771 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000042 (Oct. 2, 2019).
772 Sondland Dep. Tr. at 290; Sondland Hearing Tr. at 100-101.
773 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000042 (Oct. 2, 2019).
774 Sondland Dep. Tr. at 291.
775 Sondland Dep. Tr. at 291.
776 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000019 (Oct. 2, 2019).
777 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000019 (Oct. 2, 2019).
778 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000019 (Oct. 2, 2019).
779 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000042 (Oct. 2, 2019).
780 House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Opening Statement of Ambassador Gordon Sondland, Department of State, Impeachment, 116th Cong., at 15 (Nov. 20, 2019).
781 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000042 (Oct. 2, 2019).
782 Sondland Dep. Tr. at 291-292.
783 Sondland Dep. Tr. at 291-292.
784 House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Opening Statement of Ambassador Gordon Sondland, Department of State, Impeachment, 116th Cong., at 14 (Nov. 20, 2019).
785 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000005 (Oct. 2, 2019).
786 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_02816.
787 House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Opening Statement of Ambassador Gordon Sondland, Department of State, Impeachment, 116th Cong., at 22 (Nov. 20, 2019).
788 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 102.
789 House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Opening Statement of Ambassador Gordon Sondland, Department of State, Impeachment, 116th Cong., at 22 (Nov. 20, 2019).
790 Sondland Hearing Tr. at 28.
791 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000020 (Oct. 2, 2019).
792 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000007 (Oct. 2, 2019).
793 AT&T Document Production, Bates ATTHPSCI_20190930_02828.
794 Volker Transcribed Interview Tr. at 113.
795 Volker Transcribed Interview Tr. at 71-72.
796 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000023 (Oct. 2, 2019).
797 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000023 (Oct. 2, 2019).
798 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000023 (Oct. 2, 2019).
799 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000023 (Oct. 2, 2019).
800 WhatsApp Security (online at www.whatsapp.com/security/) (accessed Nov. 29, 2019).
801 Kurt Volker Document Production, Bates KV00000043 (Oct. 2, 2019).
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